Cabarets in Paris: The Ultimate Guide to Help You Choose Your Show

Cabarets are places where you can have dinner while admiring a show or a revue. In Paris, they grew famous during the 19th century, during the Belle Epoque, and this even though they were considered places of debauchery. Today, they are as popular as before or even more because some of them have become world famous and built the popularity of the Parisian nights. However, there are so many of them and of different kinds that it is sometimes difficult to choose the show or revue to see. Here is a list of the Cabarets of Paris with their characteristics that will help you make your choice.

Revue Cabaret

Le Moulin Rouge

The most emblematic of the French cabarets, it is famous worldwide. You will see a troupe of 80 artists, dancers recruited all round the world. Your eyes will be dazzled by the wide variety of feathers, diamante and flakes (some great names of the haute couture took part of their creation), but also by the sumptuous decoration with shimmering colors while listening an original music recorded by 80 musicians and 60 choristers. As part of the dances, you will see the famous French cancan.

Show only: from 87€ at 9pm or 11pmShow and dinner: from 174€ and from 7pmDuration: 1h30
Open every day.

THE REVIEWS:
Come to Paris: 4.7/5
TripAdvisor: 4/5

WHAT WE THINK:We like: the magic of the place.
We love: the French cancan, the show which is amazing and unforgettable.

Le Lido

116 Avenue des Champs-Elysées, 75008 Paris

Kind of show: dances, songs.Capacity: up to 900 people.

The most glamorous of the French cabarets, it has known a revival thanks to the Clérico brothers who decided to buy it from Léon Volterra in 1946. In addition to this transformation, the all new concept of dinner and show attracts all of Paris. It is thanks to their first representation of the revue “Sans Rimes Ni Raisons” in 1946 that the establishment wins a great success. You will be able to admire choreographies of the Bluebell Girls and the Lido Boys whose legend is maintained by the producer Franco Dragone. You will be projected into a dazzling universe through a breathtaking decoration, feathered outfits, each more sparkling than the other and shows that will take your breath away.

Show only: from 85€ at 9pm or 11pm.
Dinner and show: from 170€ at 7pm.
Duration: 1h30.
Open every day.

THE REVIEWS:
Come to Paris: 4.7/5
TripAdvisor: 4/5

WHAT WE THINK:
We like: the dinner, the kind and convivial atmosphere.
We love: the show and the diversity given to our eyes.

Paradis Latin

28 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine, 75005 Paris

Kind of show: French cancan, acrobatics and dances.Capacity: up to 700 people.

Rebuilt under the watch of Gustave Eiffel, the Paradis Latin opened its doors again in 1889 and it was a triumph. For a few years, the creations of the revues and the ballets succeeded one another until a financial crisis hit the cabaret. In 1973, Jean Kriegel bought the establishment and decided to give birth again to the mythical spirit of the cabaret. Acrobats, dancers … You will see artists of a great talent rush around the stage to give you a fabulous show. Between French cancan, songs and air shows, you will be served.

Show only: from 65€ at 9.30pm
Dinner and show: from 120€ at 8pm
Duration: 1h30
Open every day except on Tuesday.

THE REVIEWS:
Come to Paris: 4.3/5
TripAdvisor: 4/5

WHAT WE THINK:
We like: the setting, the atmosphere and the dinner.We love: the show, the outfits and the choreographies that are wonderful.

Le Crazy Horse

The most sexy, this cabaret is the only one that creates shows in which you can see naked female dancers that are actually only dressed with lights. Velvet chairs, prestigious room, come discover the elegant and refined universe of the cabaret that celebrates women. Founded in 1951 by Alain Bernardin, this cabaret will offer you a show like you’ve never seen before.

Show only: from 85€ (Sunday-Friday: 8.15pm or 10.45pm; Saturday: 7pm, 9.30pm or 11.45pm).
Duration: 1h30.
Open every day.

THE REVIEWS:
Come to Paris: 4.7/5
TripAdvisor: 4/5

WHAT WE THINK:
We like: the play of light and the small room that makes everything more intimate.We love: the dancers, elegant, graceful and glamorous.

Secret Square

27 Avenue des Ternes, 75017 Paris

Kind of show: dance, undressing.Capacity: 260 people.

In this temple of pleasure and lust open since 2009, in a soft atmosphere, sit on red velvet sofas, come and enjoy the French striptease of no less than 25 female dancers with different styles and enjoy a very sensual show. It is a place that will please both men and women notably thanks to the elegance of the show. In a sexy and glamorous atmosphere, you can taste good and gastronomic and aphrodisiac meals.

La Nouvelle Eve

25 Rue Pierre Fontaine, 75009 Paris

Kind of show: dance, song, French cancan.Capacity: 280 people.

Built in 1898, it has often changed its name and style, but it is one of the oldest and most elegant cabarets of Paris. It has never stopped evolving through ages, but today it reserves its representations to typically Parisian revues. Its unique nature comes from its decoration: soft atmosphere under a starry ceiling, the performances of the dancers will take place on a fluorescent and multicolor stage. In this way, you will see 23 dancers parade in nearly 150 outfits. Moreover, they will also perform the French Cancan.

Show only: 69€ at 8.30pm or 10.30pm.
Dinner and show: from 98€, entrance from 6.30pm, show at 8.30pm.
Open every day from 6.30pm to midnight.

THE REVIEWS:
Note Yelp: 4/5
Note TripAdvisor: 4.5/5

WHAT WE THINK:
We like: the charm and the intimacy of the place.We love: the dancers and the jugglers.

Exotic Cabarets

Brasil Tropical

It is on a very tropical decoration, in a colorful room with palm trees that you will spend a fully Brazilian night. From 7.30 to 10pm approximately, you will be able to taste culinary specialities from this beautiful country and this while listening to entertaining music like salsa, lambada or even samba. Then, this first animation will give way to the revue with its dancers wearing feathers. Then, after the representation, you can stay and dance until the end of the night during a dancing night until the cabaret closes.

Dinner and show options: from 95€
Duration of the revue: 1h30
Open: from Tuesday to Saturday from 7.30pm to 1am.

Pau Brasil

In a pace that looks like a concert room, you will closely live the show as tables are situated around the stage. Dancers, singers and musicians will make you live a colorful show worthy of a Brazilian carnival. Samba, salsa and lambada, outfits and atmosphere, everything will make you spend a nonstandard night because the keywords of this cabaret are dancing, having fun and unwinding. You will also be able to taste Brazilian specialities, and among them are several varieties of meal roasted on fire and served on their spit.

Free entrance on Monday from 9pm.
Set menu from 115€.
Open every day from 8pm to midnight.

THE REVIEWS:
Come to Paris: 5/5
TripAdvisor: 3.5/5

What we think

We like: the exoticism of the show that makes it different from the other cabarets.
We love: the dancers that take their time to play with the public.

Humorous Cabarets

César Palace Paris

Here, you will see the most humoristic revue of Paris. In an atmosphere of a Music Hall cabaret, the Cesar Palace of Paris offers you a multitude of artists: dancers, humorists, magicians, jugglers, violinist, etc. Every table of the Cesar Palace is situated in order to have a good view over the stage. This is the place to be if you want to dance and to laugh at the same time. From the beginning, you will taste good meals of the chef, and then the revue will start at 9.30pm and will take you back in time. Finally, a dancing night will follow the show and finish on a high note.

Dinner and show and dancing night: from 79€.
Duration: 1h30.
Show and dancing night: 45€.
Open every day from 7pm to 2am.

THE REVIEWS:
TickeTac: 4/5
TripAdvisor: 4/5

WHAT WE THINK:
We like: the welcome, the atmosphere, the decoration. We love: the show between laughter, songs, magic and emotions.

Don Camilo

It is the reference cabaret for artists. It has seen the French greatest names: Thierry le Luron, Michel Leeb, Serge Reggiani or even Laurent Gerra. You can have diner in a sober and chic space and surrounded by slivers of mirror. This famous cabaret mixes laughter to gastronomy. Indeed, budding or already known singers, impersonators, humorists, drawers and sketchers, ventriloquists come and make the show while tasting delicious meals.

L’Âne Qui Rit

You will be here in a contemporary room that will favour the proximity with the artists on stage. In here, (un)known humorists will make you laugh to death from the beginning to the end of the show and for almost two hours. Fortunately, before that you might have taken a good, refined and elaborated meal made from fresh products.

Opening: from 7pm
Dinner: 7.30 – 9pm
Menus: from 49€
Show: 9pm – 11pm

THE REVIEWS:
TripAdvisor: 3/5

WHAT WE THINK:
We like: the good meal.We love: laughing until the end of the night.

Transformist Cabarets

Chez Michou

If you want a change in the kind of cabaret you see, you are in the right place. In this blue tone cabaret, with a muted, friendly and warm atmosphere, you will see a show with transformist artists who mix dream and illusion. In this way, you can see performances of colorful artists full of energy but also looking like Dalida, Patricia Kaas or even Stromae. One thing is certain: you will get out of this cabaret full of good memories.

Open every day from 8.15pm.
Menu set for dinner and show: 115€ or 145€
Show only: from 45€
Beginning of the show: 10.30pm

THE REVIEWS:
Yelp: 4/5
TripAdvisor: 4.5/5

WHAT WE THINK:
We like: the amazing, convivial and cosy atmosphere.We love: the artists who wonderfully interpret the singers.

Artishow Cabaret

3 Cité Souzy, 75011 Paris

Kind of show: transformist, dance, humour.Capacity: up to 100 people.

In a unique, muted and cosy room, the Artishow, the warmest Parisian cabaret will welcome you with much humour and frivolity, banishing any rudeness and bad taste. Here, people who make the show mix comedy, theatre, dance, transformism and even clown arts and will offer you original acts. Everything’s fun, entertaining, convivial and refreshing.

Dinner and show: from 89€ at 8pm.
Show only: 29€ at 8pm; 60€ at 10pm.

THE REVIEWS:
TickeTac: 4.5/5
TripAdvisor: 4.5/5

WHAT WE THINK:
We like: the warm atmosphere and the staff.We love: the artists, the given emotions, the humour.

Madame Arthur

75 bis Rue des Martyrs, 75018 Paris

Kind of show: transformist, French songs, humour.Capacity: up to 85 people.

It was the first transformist cabaret of Paris. This completely mad show has artists going on stage and covering the greatest French songs of yesterday and today, performed with a piano and an accordion. Following the date and the hour when you will go, the show can be different, but here is what you could see: a cabaret show with the Madam Arthur troupe, the French Tonic, the French Test (a quiz about French music), each at 9pm or 11pm, then from midnight to 6am will take place the French Club with the Madam Arthur and Divan du Monde troupes. During the show you can taste a range of homemade and seasonal cocktails and meals.

Open from Wednesday to Saturday from 8pm to 6am.
Show: 10-15€
Restauration: 6-10€
Cocktails: 10-12€

THE REVIEWS:
TripAdvisor: 4/5
Yelp: 3.5/5

WHAT WE THINK:
We like: the good-natured atmosphere that changes from other Parisian cabarets.We love: the talented artists.

Shows Cabarets (all kind, magic, stand-up, circus)

La Main au Panier

3 Rue de Poissy, 75005 Paris

Kind of show: humour, magic, music, songs.Capacity: up to 80 people.

In this humorous show with dinner, you are in the smallest of the greatest Parisian cabarets and the good mood is assured. Your night will begin with a good and generous meal. Then, prepare to cry out of laughter in front of a show hosted by the famous Michel Forever and in which artists will succeed one another: humorists, humorist magicians, humorist pianists and singers. This cabaret also offers karaoke nights during which you will be the star of the night.

Open from Tuesday to Saturday from 8pm.
Menus: from 63€

THE REVIEWS:
LaFourchette: 8.6/10
TripAdvisor: 4/5

WHAT WE THINK:
We like: the good meal before the show to digest before being bent over with laughter.We love: the presentation by Michel Forever, the artists who all are excellent.

Chez Ma Cousine

12 Rue Norvins, 75018 Paris

Kind of show: humor, songs.Capacity: up to 80 covers.

It is in a convivial and warm atmosphere and in a familial room that you will see a show typical of Montmartre. You will see a variety of artists succeed on stage: humorists, singers, impersonators, illusionists. Before the show you can taste very good meals like a foie gras and its seasonal marmalade or roasted scallops.

Open every day.
Dinner and show: 63€ – 76€
Meal: from 8-8.30pm to 10pm
Show: from 10pm to midnight.

THE REVIEWS:
LaFourchette: 7.8/10
L’Officiel des Spectacles: 3,7/5

WHAT WE THINK:
We like: the good atmosphere, joyful and full of laughter.We love: the large repertoire of songs and the quality of the show.

Le Zèbre de Belleville

In this cabaret you will feel like you are at the circus because of the decoration with red curtains and a rustic atmosphere with the wood that will give you the feeling of being under a circus tent. But this is not the only thing. The show is also based on circus performances: puppeteer, magician, trapeze artist, contortionist, acrobat but you will also be able to choose between this or a cabaret of illusion in which you can find every kind of magic. The cabaret offers nights of concert and circus working groups.

The show take place on several days of the week but there are no predetermined dates, so you should call the cabaret directly in order to prepare your evening in the best possible way.

Cabaret Sauvage

In here, you will feel more like at the circus than the cabaret because of its decoration and the setting of the place that looks like an elegant circus tent. Red velvet roof and walls, beams, circular and wooden parquet and dance floor, tables and seats surrounding the place, oblique mirrors and lights. Then, you can see the show while seated or standing, while having dinner or a drink.

The price depends on the bands performing and the tickets are accessible on the spot or in presale for the major part of them.

THE REVIEWS:
TripAdvisor: 4.5/5
Yelp: 4/5

WHAT WE THINK:
We like: the decoration and the atmosphere.We love: the proximity with the artists.

Singers Cabarets

Happy Day’s Paris

Laughter, dance, music are the keywords of the nights in this cabaret. The night will first begin with the dinner cooked by the chef, in a red and black room. In a more muted light, it will be followed by a musical and televisual test about the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s and this will already put you in the mood. Then, the show will succeed this interactive session and the night will end with a dancing night.

Au Lapin Agile

Nothing has changed in this cabaret of Montmartre once called the Cabaret of the Assassins. It is in this place that humorists, actors, musicians, poets or singers came and are still coming to begin their career. Here you can’t have dinner but you can take a drink while watching the show that will see all kind of starting artists succeed each other, in the most convivial and warm atmosphere.

Open every night from Tuesday to Sunday, from 9pm to 1am.
Drink and show: 28€ (20€ for people under 26 years old)

THE REVIEWS:
TripAdvisor: 4/5
Yelp: 4/5

What we thinkWe like: the repertoire of songs and the tribute to French culture.
We love: the authenticity of the place.

Jazz Club Etoile

In a very Parisian and elegant place, you will discover new talents of Jazz and others whose reputation is no longer to be done and who will perform their music or pay tribute to the legends. At the same time, you can taste gourmet and generous cooking. The Club also proposes a Jazzy Brunch on Sunday, with a Jazz trio. So let yourself thrill to the great sounds of jazz.

Open from 9pm to 1.30am
Show: 9.30pm – 1am
Price: from 28€.

THE REVIEWS:
TripAdvisor: 3.5/5
LaFourchette: 8.8/10

WHAT WE THINK:
We like: the atmosphere, the decoration, the service.We love: the quality of the groups of artists performing amazing tunes.

Le Caminito Cabaret

48-50 Rue du Dessous des Berges Angle, 31 Rue Cantagrel, 75013 Paris

Kind of show: music, songs.Capacity: up to 45 people.

In a warm atmosphere, this restaurant-cabaret makes you feel like home. Take a seat with your friends, your lover or your family, and talk about anything. Taste anything you want to among the menu proposing diverse starters, main courses and desserts that everyone will enjoy. While you’ll be having lunch or dinner, you also can enjoy the talents of young artists, singers and musicians who accentuate the natural good mood of this place.

Open every day.
Brunch on Sunday.

THE REVIEWS:
LaFourchette: 8.9/10
TripAdvisor: 4.5/5

WHAT WE THINK:
We like: the price that are affordable for anyone and for a good food quality.We love: the convivial atmosphere of the place, like home.

Mona knows Paris like the back of her hand. Its bars, its restaurants and above all, its hotels, whether you want to sleep, eat, party or just take a walk in Paris, Mona knows them (nearly) all. Follow her lead, she will gladly give you all her good tips!

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